Our View: Don't leave schools in the dark about state funding

7:02 PM,
Feb. 14, 2014

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Press-Citizen Editorial Board
Our View

It must be nice to be state lawmaker. Whenever there's a law that you don't feel like following, you can just vote to change it.

And that's exactly what the Republican-controlled House of Representatives tried to do Thursday - which was the legal deadline by which state lawmakers were supposed to set the allowable growth rate for public school districts for 18 months out.

The Democratic-controlled Senate already passed a bill calling for a 6 percent increase in school funding for the 2015-16 school year. The House - rather than start negotiations to ensure they would be in compliance with the ...